Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: World
- U.S. diplomat discusses Sudan in meetings here
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 10:57 AMDane Smith, the U.S. government's senior adviser for Darfur, spoke Monday during a visit to Pittsburgh.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russian Opposition Urges U.S. to End Cold War Trade Sanctions
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMMOSCOW -- Prominent organizers of antigovernment demonstrations in Moscow urged the United States Congress on Monday to end cold-war-era trade restrictions against Russia, saying that leaving them in place would only help President-elect Vladimir V.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Stroke Victim Wins Right to Seek Legal Euthanasia
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMLONDON -- A British stroke victim paralyzed from the neck down and suffering from so-called locked-in syndrome won the right on Monday to seek changes in a law that would enable a doctor to end what he has called "intolerable life" without risking murder charges.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - As Rockets Fly, New Conditions Shape Fight in Gaza
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMJERUSALEM -- Cross-border fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in Gaza continued for a fourth day on Monday, with the Palestinian death toll rising from Israeli airstrikes and the militants' rockets reaching farther into Israel.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Britain to Join Obama in Discouraging a Strike on Iran
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- Britain will add its voice to President Obama's in discouraging an Israeli military strike on Iran when Prime Minister David Cameron begins a three-day visit here this week, a senior British diplomat said Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Obama's Rating Falls as Poll Reflects Volatility
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMDespite improving job growth and an extended Republican primary fight dividing his would-be opponents, President Obama is heading into the general election season on treacherous political ground, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Israel, Gaza militants reach Egypt-mediated cease-fire
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Egypt has mediated a cease-fire between Palestinian militant factions and Israel after four days of violence.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Officials debate speeding up Afghan pullout
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMThe Obama administration is discussing whether to reduce U.S. forces in Afghanistan by at least an additional 20,000 troops.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Gasoline prices sinking Obama's economy ratings
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMDisapproval of President Barack Obama's handling of the economy is heading higher -- alongside gasoline prices.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Feds release health overhaul blueprint for states
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- Fifty million people in America lack health insurance, and the law says most of them must soon be provided coverage.
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- Merkel Defends Germany's Nuclear Power Deadline
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMBERLIN -- Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany defended over the weekend her government's decision to phase out nuclear power by 2022 and replace it with renewable energy sources, dismissing critics who said the government would never make the deadline.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - French Surgeon, 71, Saves Lives in Syria
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMPARIS -- At the age of 71, Dr. Jacques Bérès, a veteran of war zones, left his comfortable Paris life last month to smuggle himself into Homs, the center of the Syrian revolt, to tend to the wounded and the sick.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In 'Battle' With Media, a New Tactic in Ecuador
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMQUITO, Ecuador -- The fight goes on for Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador, who has been in a relentless donnybrook with his country's news media almost from the day he took office five years ago.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hague Court to Decide Where Former Dictator of Chad Will Be Tried
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMPARIS -- International judges in The Hague are hearing a complex case this week that boils down to a single and unusual question: which country has the right to try Hissène Habré, the former president of Chad, who has been indicted in two nations in connection with political killings, torture and a host of other brutalities.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Seattle Gets the Street View on the Quality of Its Lights
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMSEATTLE -- This city has a noble notion of itself at the leading edge. Its jets, coffee, computers, environmental activism and philanthropy have all been celebrated for remaking the globe.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - G.O.P. Split Over a Bid to Revise Budget Deal
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- The House is bracing for a rancorous showdown over a 2013 budget plan that has already divided Republicans because of a push by conservatives to cut spending below the level both parties agreed to in last year's deal to raise the federal deficit.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Britain is asked to legalize euthanasia
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMA British stroke victim won the right to seek changes in a law that would enable a doctor to end his life without risking murder charges.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.S. rejects Texas voter-ID law
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMHOUSTON --The U.S. Justice Department on Monday rejected Texas' new voter-identification law.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - National briefs (3/12/12)
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMRepublican presidential contenders campaigned aggressively on the eve of primaries in Alabama and Mississippi.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Britain: Court Hands Qaddafi Son's Mansion to Libya
Monday - 03/12/2012 - 12:00 AMThe Libyan government won a court order on Friday granting it possession of a $16 million London mansion bought by the playboy son of the former Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with what a high court judge ruled were stolen Libyan government funds.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- An Islamist Stakes Out Liberal Ground in Egypt's Presidential Race
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMCAIRO -- Rabab El Mahdi is an unlikely adviser for an Islamist presidential campaign. A 37-year-old Marxist and feminist with cascading waves of unveiled dark hair, she was a political science professor at Yale before she returned last summer to rejoin Egypt's revolution.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In China, Part of Railway Collapses Despite Test Runs
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMBEIJING -- China's troubled state-run rail system suffered another setback with news reports Monday that a section of railway that already had undergone test runs has collapsed.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Out of Jail, Ex-Professor and His Crossbow Fight South Korea's Judiciary
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMSEOUL, South Korea -- The image on the cover of Kim Myung-ho's self-published book neatly captures his attitude toward the South Korean judiciary. It shows Mr. Kim, a former mathematics professor, standing defiantly, a law book in one hand and a crossbow in the other.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - For Some in Vietnam, Prosperity Is a South Korean Son-in-Law
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMQUANG YEN, Vietnam -- In the end, Bui Van Vui lived only three months in the new house that two of his daughters, married to men in South Korea, had helped him build here.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Rushworth M. Kidder, Ethicist, Dies at 67
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMRushworth M. Kidder, an academic-turned-journalist who founded a research institute dedicated to mapping approaches to ethical dilemmas, propounding his ideas in books, speeches and seminars, died on March 5 at a nursing home in Davie, Fla.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- World briefs (3/12/12)
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMSyrian opposition activists said soldiers and pro-government thugs killed dozens in the devastated central city of Homs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.S. diplomat discusses Sudan in meetings here
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMDane Smith, the U.S. government's senior adviser for Darfur, speaks Monday during a visit to Pittsburgh.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bishops target abuse victims' advocate
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMLawyers for the Catholic Church and priests accused of sexual abuse have gone to court to compel the group to disclose more than two decades of emails.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Obama report: Oil imports dropping, domestic production highest since '03
Tuesday - 03/13/2012 - 12:00 AMA new Obama administration report cites "significant progress" in reducing foreign oil imports and increasing domestic oil and gas production.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Officials Hinder Inquiry Into Afghan Air Force on Smuggling, Two Americans Say
Monday - 03/12/2012 - 12:00 AMKABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan defense officials are impeding an investigation into accusations that members of their air force are smuggling opium and weapons and that an Afghan officer who shot and killed eight American service members last year may have been involved in the suspected trafficking, two American officials said.
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